That summer brought a lot of change on the kit front, though. The club’s deal with Umbro ended, as did the short-term sponsorship arrangement with the Yorkshire Evening Post.

On both fronts, Admiral were the replacements as they sought to re-assert themselves in the kit game, with a five-year contract agreed, as outlined in the excellent book Do You Want To Win? by Daniel Chapman, which covers the club’s development during the period from 1988-92.

Sartorially, Admiral’s most noticeable change was the designation of blue as the away colour, with yellow demoted to third choice. Daniel goes into detail on blue Leeds change strips here, and it is a deviation mentioned in that piece that we will look at.

Tottenham had navy shorts and socks, but Leeds only changed shorts, despite the Premier League having decreed that shorts-clashes between teams didn’t have to be solved, in contrast to the Football League’s rule.

While Leeds had beaten Spurs 5-0 at Elland Road in the new Premier League in August (with Eric Cantona scoring a hat-trick), their form had dipped since then and their defence of the title was characterised by a failure to win an away game – this was a 4-0 loss.

The league outings, coupled with the 3-0 Champions League defeat to VfB Stuttgart, meant the blue shirt was also winless and it wasn’t seen after this game, with the yellow preferred when a change was required.